[Logbook of the Carolina (Ship),mastered by James Gray and Thomas C. Harding, on voyage from 3 Oct. 1856-13 Apr. 1861]

by: Carolina (Ship)

Publication date: 1856

Topics: Gray, James, whaling master, Harding, Thomas C., Sylvanus Thomas & Company, Blackfish, Blue whale, Bowhead whale, Finback whale, Globicephala, Humpback whale, Indigenous people, Killer whale, Marine accidents, Medicine, Naval, Punishment, Right whales, Seafaring life, Sperm whale, Voyages and travels, Whalers (Persons), Whales, Whalers (Persons)Death, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Whaling masters, Apia (Samoa)--Description and travel, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Hakodate-shi (Japan)--Description and travel, Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Guam--Description and travel, Japan, Sea of--Description and travel, Lahaina (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Pohnpei Island (Micronesia)--Description and travel, Shantarskie Islands (Russia)--Description and travel, Talcahuano (Chile)--Description and travel

Collection: newbedfordwhalingmuseum; regionaldigitizationmass; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum

Language: English

Partial log, keeper unknown, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans and Okhotsk and Japan seas.$bIncludes descriptions of whales (blackfish, blue, bowhead, finback, gray, humpback, killer, right, and sperm), seen or taken, accidents at sea, punishment on ship, shipboard medicine, and indigenous people; and whale stamps, ship stamps, and accounts. Other places represented include Faial Island, Talcahuano, Shantarskie Islands, Honolulu, Apia, Hakodate-shi, Lahaina, Pohnpei Island, Maui, and Guam; Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by James Gray and Thomas C. Harding, on voyage from 3 Oct. 1856-13 Apr. 1861, to the San Antonio, near Carroll, Hawaiian, Off Shore, and Sea of Japan whaling grounds; owner-agent: Sylvanus Thomas & Company; built at Medford, Mass., in 1836

In the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library